A 2-month-old infant who was included in Michigan’s coronavirus death reports last week died of complications of a congenital condition made worse by the virus, according to medical examiner’s office in Wisconsin, where the child died.
The infant, who was from Gladstone in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, was born with gastroschisis, a birth defect in which a baby’s intestines develop outside the body.
He died Sept. 13 at a Milwaukee hospital, and the official cause of death was complications of gastroschisis, according to the Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office.
Coronavirus was a factor in the death, according to the preliminary investigation report, which reads in part: “This 2-month-old infant died from COVID-19. He had GI symptoms of the disease, which exacerbated tenuous congenital defects.”
The death was listed by Michigan as a confirmed coronavirus death, which means the child tested positive for the virus. Michigan’s coronavirus death totals include patients who test positive for the virus and for whom COVID-19 was listed as a significant condition contributing to death.
The Upper Peninsula is currently experiencing a surge of coronavirus cases. Delta County -- which includes Gladstone -- has reported 43 new cases since Sept. 1.
The infant’s death did not classify as a coronavirus death in Milwaukee County, where coronavirus must be listed as the cause of death, the medical examiner’s office said.
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The survival rate for gastroschisis is more than 90%, according the medical literature, but coronavirus can cause gastrointestinal symptoms such as a perforated bowel or bowel ischemia, in which blood flow to the bowel slows or stops.
The death was announced last week by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
2-month-old dies of coronavirus in Michigan
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